Are the different colors indicative of degrees of ripeness? How the hell would you know when to pick them? I looked at the site and I am no more knowledgeable. At $5.00 a pack on sale, I'm tempted to buy some seeds.

In the photo, there are indications (if it's not doctored) that they do change color during their growth.

I'm definitely buying a pack of seeds. Five bucks is worth it for a botanical education.

How the hell do they do that?

"Snakeoil" is right. From laidbackgardener.blog/2018/02/01/yet-another-gardening-ripoff/

So, what lesson—indeed, lessons!—can we learn from this case?

First, that there are plenty of scam artists out there using faked photos of vegetables, fruits and flowers to bilk you out of your money. In the past, I’ve covered in this blog other gardening ripoffs that involve seeds that don’t deliver the goods, such as black strawberries, rainbow roses and cubic watermelons, but there are many others.

This is easy to fix: only order seed from reputable seed companies!

Secondly, and most importantly: If it doesn’t look real, it probably isn’t!20180201

Ready to eat, or do you have to grow them from the seeds?